Re: free graphic excitement

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Calum:

> > (Personal feedback, not speaking on behalf of Marketing team:)
> > > From a technical point of view I wonder how much slower this will make
> > login time. "If we still have a splash screen in ten years, we have done
> > something wrong." (I think I quoted dobey here.)
> > Also wondering if this would annoy me when I log in for the, say, 30th
> > time.
>
> Inclined to agree-- might be worth showing once per user, though, like 
> the "Welcome to OSX" sort of thing that Apple do.  After that, probably 
> just leave it somewhere that people can find it again, if they want to.
>
> Could be interesting to use this sort of technology to do a GNOME 
> desktop tour video, though, especially if it was updated to highlight 
> the coolest features in each release :)  (Although one problem that's 
> always existed with that idea is that not all distros ship all GNOME 
> features, and/or add their own...)

I would think that the most important and exciting features would be
common to all or most distros.  Highlighting humanitarian features
such as how it can be used in projects like the "One Laptop Per Child"
program, its accessibility, its translation into 3rd world languages,
its ease of use, etc. are probably all things that most distros wouldn't
mind letting users know about, especially if it makes the desktop
feel more exciting.

Brian